Abortion Foe Accused of Stalking
An anti-abortion activist accused of threatening the director of a women’s clinic was freed on bond Thursday and ordered to stay away from the woman and the clinic.
Cathy Ann Rider was charged Wednesday with stalking Lorraine D. Mcguire, director of the Charleston Women’s Medical Clinic. The arrest warrant alleges that Rider warned Mcguire on March 20 to get police protection and a bulletproof vest because “she might be next.”
Police said it was an apparent reference to the shooting death of Dr. David Gunn last month outside an abortion clinic where he worked in Pensacola, Fla.
A complaint says Rider, 41, harassed Mcguire between last June and March 20 and “encouraged others to ‘rip her arms off’ so that Mcguire would know how aborted fetuses feel.”
Stalking, a misdemeanor, carries a maximum penalty of a year in prison and a $1,000 fine.
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